Marco Chiappetta
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Here's a blast from the past. The Inq is reporting that the Commodore brand could possibly re-emerge on a new line of high-end systems. I don't know if slapping the old logo on a funky plastic case is enough to sway people away from today's current crop of boutique...
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NVIDIA Professional Graphics Boost High-End Visual Computing in Latest Sun Ultra 40 Workstations NVIDIA Quadro FX Graphics Deliver Powerful Features and Performance for Advanced Graphics SANTA CLARA, CA - NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics...
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Hello eveyone. Now that Intel's Core 2 Duo processors have arrived, enthusiast-class motherboards are beginning to hit the streets as well. We've just taken a look at the latest addition to Asus' "Digital Home" family of products, the P5W DH Deluxe. This motherboard exploits almost every feature offered by the 975X Express...
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The Tech Report has a three Core 2 compatible motherboard round-up posted, consisting of three Asus-built motherboards. Each on is based on a different chipset - the P965, 975X Express, and nForce 4 SLIX16 Intel Edition. We used Asus' P965 (the P5B Deluxe) and nForce 4 SLIX16 (P5N32-SLI SE) boards in our Core 2 launch...
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NGOHQ is reporting that Creative Labs is blaming NVIDIA for cracking and other sound quality issues when an X-Fi sound card is installed in an nForce 4 motherboard. This reminds me of the good ol' days of installing the PCI Latency patch on VIA chipset-based motherboards when using a...
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PowerColor X1950 Brings Gaming Graphics to yet another Level No compromise on today's most demanding 3D games Taipei, Taiwan - August 23, 2006 - Tul Corporation, a leading provider of ATI-based graphic cards, today announced the PowerColor X1950 XTX and CrossFire graphic cards; raising the bar for the world's fastest graphics...
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GIGABYTE Presents Radeon X1950XTX -- Civilization IV Edition World's First GDDR4 Graphic Accelerator - Cutting-Edge Performance August 23, 2006 - GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., LTD. (GIGABYTE), a leading manufacturer of VGA cards, today...
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Hello everyone. ATI is officially announcing five new members in their Radeon X1K family of the products today, the Radeon X1950 XTX (standard and CrossFire Editions), the 256MB Radeon X1900 XT, the Radeon X1650 Pro and the Radeon X1300 XT. We outline the specifications and features of all of ATI's new cards, and benchmark the high-end...
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Although there has obviously been a lot going on behind the scenes at ATI these last few months, i.e. the proposed AMD merger, the company has remained relatively quiet. The last major graphics card launch was for the Radeon X1900...
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Kyle got his hands on some slides that detail some of the features and technology going into AMD's upcoming quad-core processors. If you were thinking AMD was just going to "glue" together two Athlon 64 X2 dies, think again. IPC improvements, a shared L3 cache, and new...
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AMD EXPANDS CHINA OPERATIONS WITH OPENING OF NEW SHANGHAI RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER - Largest AMD Center for Platform Innovation Outside the U.S. to Support Worldwide Customers and Technology Partners in the Design and Validation of Next-Generation AMD-powered Systems- SHANGHAI, CHINA - Aug. 22, 2006 - AMD (NYSE: AMD) today officially...
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The gang at HKEPC report that ATI's latest roadmaps to motherboard vendors are now missing all next generation chipsets for the Intel platform and have the RC610 chipset as the last product in development. This means that RD700, RS700 and RC710 are no longer being developed with those...
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Michael Schuette from Lost Circuits has an article on-line detailing the power and performance characteristics of three energy efficient processors, the Core 2 Duo E6300 and the AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ and 4600+. As usual, Lost Circuits does a great job with the technical analysis...
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Ars Technica has published an article on the use and impact of consumer electronics in war zones by US soliders. Not exactly hardware related, but interesting reading to say the least. "American servicemen have always brought along a piece of home to whevever they have served. In Afghanistan...
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Hello everyone. Those of you that are in the market for a TV-Tuner card will have another option soon, courtesy of ATI and their new Theater 650 Pro chip and Catalyst Media Center software. We've taken a look at a reference Theater 650 Pro card at HotHardware.com, alongside a...
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Good afternoon folks. Just in case you're the type who likes to jump straight down to the news, we wanted to drop in to let you all know that we've just posted a new article (link and summary at the top of the page), where we evaluate the features and performance of Sapphire's...
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The folks in the XtremeSystems forum have posted some images of the new ASUS P5W64 WS Pro workstation motherboard. The most unique aspect of this new board is the presence of four PCI-E x16 slots. Obviously, the first thing our readers will think of is coming up with a way to get two ATI...
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NVIDIA Starts Shipping NVIDIA nForce Professional 3000 Series MCPs to Server and Workstation Customers NVIDIA nForce 3000 Series Supports New AMD Opteron Processors with Support for DDR2 Memory SANTA CLARA, CA - NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics...
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When we asked AMD and ATI some questions about their impending merger, at one point we asked if there were any special plans in motion that would impact the mobile space in particular. The response we got what somewhat vague at the time, but some more details are emerging. According to this story on the INQ, AMD and ATI plan to integrate...
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The news has been somewhat slow this morning, but we've got a handful of articles from around the web that you may find interesting. First, please take some time to check out our review of Corsair's brand new modular PSU. As its name implies, the CMPSU-620HX is a 620 watt PSU. It's got three dedicated 12v rail,...
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It looks like Graeme Philipson from TheAge.com has made the switch from a PC to a Mac and he couldn't be happier. I get a kick out of articles like this because they always seem to point out Windows' glaring deficiencies and shine the spotlight on the Mac OS' strengths. As...
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Hello Everyone. We've just posted a new article where we evaluate the features and performance of Corsair's brand new modular CMPSU-620HX 620W power supply. Here's a snip from the article... "Over the course of the last few years, Corsair has expanded their product line to address additional markets beyond memory modules. Here,...
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